Metal shrinking pliers, edge lip adjustment panel beating car panel Tipsand tricks #33 

Your videos are a great classroom session. I appreciate your British humor. Must be the trace of English ancestry I have. The nice part of your videos is that you repeat information with just a couple mouse clicks. Cheers from Ohio to Trev and all viewers.

Trev, believe me mate, you are a real star! I love all the vids, and like others say, you have inspired me to carry on with my project which I was pretty much stalled with. You are super-skilled and do a fantastic job.

There is a similar tool marketed to sheet metal workers making ductwork to crimp the ends of ducts so one will fit inside the other. I made one using Visegrip brand locking pliers. The double fulcrum action of the Vise grip reduces the amount of force to close so it is easy to make 2 or 3 crimps at a time. Also, the adjustable closing action makes it simple to make consistent tucks or crimps.

This is brilliant. I must have watched it 10 times already. Trying to make my own version based on this. Thank you for excellent break down and explanation, as usual. ISH, South Africa

Another great lesson. You should market that shrinking plier. Attached to your Coffee Maker’s Containment Sphere is the Receptor Antenna, which collects artron energy using chronon transduction. Alternately, you can run it on LPG.

The coffee machine is run on gas LPG. Love your vids, it’s given me the confidence to have a crack at a very rusty Toyota Landcruiser roof which I never would have tackled if it wasn’t for your inspirational approach to your craft and it’s dissemination, your a good one Trev keep up the good work 👌👍🍻

Great video Trev. More great info and tips on how to do a great job like you always do ! Your coffee machine will be run on super quiet LPG. Cheers Jeff.

I always thought a hardwood worked better for shrinking than a metal, but Trev is the man

Thanks Trev. I managed to knock out some dings in my box truck turned tiny home project following tips from one of your previous videos. I'd say your radically complicated LPG tank locker is pretty unique.

great tutorial again Trev ....thank you for spending all that time creating and editing it for us to benefit for free. I know that You know how much we appreciate it. I did watch the Bedford video where you constructed the housing for the LPG bottles and explained how it was going to function but I see someone didn't listen to instructions about using the link to reply and posted the answer on here for everyone to see doh! so i'm going to say that you were thinking about sending up a Helium balloon with a Lighting catcher to run the coffee machine off and store the electricity in an accumulator lol ....We all know that these shows and events are held on stormy days don't we

Great technique! I’ll definitely try it! Thanks for sharing! Oh yes, you Powered the coffee machine with Gas!

Trev you're a genius, thanks for the great tip for tucking metal with a slate cutter. I believe your coffee machine will work off a portable gas tank, mounted in your van.

Great video Trev the plasticine analogy made the handling of metal much more intuitive.

Truly amazing. You are, without a doubt, the best teacher on YT. Best of luck and health to you and your family.

Wow... totally amazing you are a metal magician . Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your obvious skills 👍

Your channel is the greatest RU-vid channel. Each week I anxiously await the release of your newest knowledge package. Thank you. I urge all who view your videos to let the commercials run completely. This is a simple way to support your RU-vid channel. Your coffee machine is powered by LP gas.

Trev, you are one of the gods of sheet matal working. Great explained, thank you !!

Wow, what another great video Trev!! Your adapted tool has given me a great way to use a weird pair of pliers my Dad had for as long as I can remember and neither of us could ever come up with a way to use them properly, then I see this video and there is the answer!!!!!! Only took around 40 years or so but now I know exactly what to use them for....!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your efforts making these videos, it is really appreciated

Excellent work and with simple tools. Keep up the good work Trev! Probably my favortite panel beating channel. I really like the hammer so I'll be answering your question. You will be powering you coffee machine off grid with gas most likely propane or some sort of LPG.

Dude you're the best on RU-vid and you're videos are so easy to learn from and I can't stop watching so thanks ❤️ Trev's blog

You will be using lpg gas for the coffee machine. Thanks again trev another excellent video. I have had a car in my possion for 20 years that I’ve always said I would restore and your blog has inspired me to get started on it thanks again for all your inspiration.

Hope everyone is having a pleasant Sunday - CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.

It's a nice easy to understand method. I am not in the trade now, but I did my apprenticeship shrinking and stretching complicated shapes by hand and rubber wheel , sand bag or powered rubber bumper and the English wheel. The most effective was to crease the metal by hand and then close the crease by hammering with a mallet. Softening using heat. It's possible to shape flat sheets into very complicated shapes by hand. My father was a master of this trade and I learnt a lot from him.

The coffee will be brewed with LPG with the tank kept in the custom locker. Really enjoying the videos using only hand tools. Thank you.

A wow is in order and I'm not talking about your shirt them pliers you made for shrinking are just a merit just brilliant and easy you make it look keep up the good work matey and you have good taste en cervesa.

These videos help me a lot with my Model T restoration. Keeps me motivated :-) keep up the great work mate!

These videos are so enjoyable, pleasure to watch .Great tips Trev.

Nice dude!!! Filipino beer!! Thanks for all your videos. You are probably the best metal fabricator i've seen here.

So glad you thought of examining the bottle cap while everyone else was doodling along! Your ideas are so interesting and entertaining to see. Then you add the theory behind it and it all comes together. You have great intuition and real talent that is so natural . Lovely work Trev!! Can’t wait to see you build the Ferrari from shhet metal and your planishing hammer :)

Hi Trev, It seems most people think your coffee machine will be powered by LPG but just to be different I'll go out on a limb and say it will be solar powered . Enjoy your videos. You should have been a metal work teacher. Cheers from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

You will probably use a dc to ac inverter to power the coffee machine, hammer pls , awesome explanation and design for the tool . Adapting a tool like that is a really effective way to end up with a high quality one off tool for not too much money, smart man.

Absolutely loved the explanation of the shrinking and the cause and effect!

Great to watch a true craftsman Trev , I believe the coffee machine will be powered by LPG , could be wrong!

LPG powered coffee machine. Loved the amount of work you put into that with the gas box & all. Cushty! 👌👍 Great video, as always, Trev. Informative, educational & instructive. Love your cheerful & lightheartedness "can-do" attitude. Look forward to the next one. Best wishes. 👏✊✌

Good Morning from the U.S. This is a great video. Really informative. Thanks for the instruction on how to remove tuks in a metal edge. I have this very problem on an upper radiator support on my project car. I think the previous owner backed over a post or stump and hooked the bottom of the support and bent it forward which caused the top to compress a little which put 4 or 5 small tucs in the top edge. this video will help me to remove them without having to replace the entire support.

Absolutely stunning work!!!

Thanks Trev, very handy tool you made there. might have to make one myself. You will have the coffee machine running on LPG. Cant wait to see this van completed!

Watch any of your videos and it’s obvious you’re cooking on gas. And you’re running the coffee machine on gas of course. Let’s hope I win this last one, or I’ll have to buy one next week. Cheers Trev, thanks for all the effort you put in to your videos!

Most probably don't notice the geometry lesson they're getting in your videos :) Another awesome lesson. I don't know what you're using, but you really need a Flux Capacitor! (Lp gas).

Beautiful work Trev! I love your sense of humor!

Excellent explanation of the problem I was dealing with today o my 59 Healey Sprite. Thank you!!

Love the teaching style thanks Trev. Knowledge plus experience is always a great combo. The sprinkle of intervention doesn’t go amiss either 🤓 I think you have fitted an oversized alternator and are running the expresso on a inverter. Cheers

You are great man!!! Love your videos and the tutorial that you always organize with enormous dedication!!! Regards Pablo De Oliveira

Holly crap trev! You are a metal god.

Thanks for the great advice Trev. A far better solution to shrinking a flange than a shrinking hammer or a shrinking dolly. I have tried using several of these over the years and never got results that were close to pleasing. I have reground them back to useable smooth hammers and dollies.

Need a tool, make a tool!! Nice job Trev!

Impressive!! You make it look so simple. I finally have a decent understanding of "shrinking" metal after watching this video along with your previous vids.......Coffee machine power source is LPG

Great tips and techniques as always! Looking forward to seeing the LPG powered coffee maker in action when the fantastic van is finished.

Thank you for another fantastic video. I appreciate all the effort you put into your videos to help others.

Trev- Thank you for your teaching efforts. Your methods of explaining what is happening and when are spot on and very understandable. I do believe that the coffee maker will be powered by LPG. I remember all the hoops you had to go through to install the gas tank and the nest it will live in. Charlie

For the Coffee machine to operate off grid Large Battery attached to a converter will operate Your Machine in ac mode presto we have Coffees love your Demos and your smile keep it up. Pete.

Awesome instructions in the way of steel...Has helped me immensely in the way of the morris boot.giggle.Thanks for your help...Love your methods .Keep up the amazing work.....

Lpg gas . Cracking vids Trev. The way of explaining the process is spot on.

Great explanation Trev. I have learned a lot watching your vids. Thanks. I use the term gathering in place of shrinking, it helps me understand the way metal works a bit easier.

A gas powered coffee machine. Can’t wait to see this van ready for the road - and hope to see this hammer in my tools box!!! 👍👍 CU Michael

Awesome video. I think the bracing technique is really going to help with my project. So simple but what a great idea!

I could do with your help ! You sir are a magician with metal.

love the videos! have learnt so much off you and you are very entertaining as well.

Love watching your videos. It's helping a lot with my custom VW mk1 caddy project.

LPG powerd coffee/espresso machine. Love your blog. Cheers from Sweden

Good job Trev. Now I'm gonna have to make me a set of those crimppers to put on the shelf

Gas for the coffeeeeeeeeeee machine. Great tool you have made, I worked with a body guy who made his own tool for putting a step in a panel from an old pair of mole grips. We use to call him professor pat pending!!!!

Your one BAD ASS DUDE.o yea love the hair.your a man with a lost art of metel.bless you sir from michigan

Yet another great video , very informative with a problem that a lot of people can relate to The idea of repurposing tile cutters is brilliant 👍 a simple idea for a very annoying problem The answer is LPG gas Cheers Davie campbell

SHOW ME THE HAMMER!! LPG Trev. Great instructional videos, keep 'em coming please Trev. Peter

Hi Trev, another great video. Thanks. The coffee machine is LPG powered.

Great to see your ideas on working with metal Trev and LPG will heat the coffee

Hi Trev, Those pliers are in fact slate cutters and were the right cutters for the job you did on your sons little job. you fitted slates not tiles. cheers

Hi trev you’re coffee machine is run on a lpg - gas bottle, great video ,can’t wait to see your Bedford ca finished,my auntie & uncle had two back in the day for there milk & egg round ...mike 👍

Another great lesson, thanks Trev.LPG for the espresso/coffee machine

Cool video,thank you Trev👍waiting for your next hummer shaping one!💪

Nice to hear you have the "shrinking hammer" supply sorted out. Initially tuned in to watch a Horror Movie involving an Incredible Shrinking Monster. To my surprise I found a very nice PacMan headed tool for crimp shrinking metal. Well done Trev. Looking forward to seeing your first Bedford brewed coffee. The LPG flame should heat the H2O to a perfect temperature.Best to you and yours

Thank you I always learn a lot by watching your videos I appreciate it and I appreciate you

Hi Trev, great episode again. The coffee machine runs on gas.

You ran a line from the LPG Gas tank to the Coffey machine.Another excellent video .

Great idea, had a similar problem when patching up the front wings on my x300 jag....now looking for a pair of them pliers.

Very helpful and informative again Trev, very clever man , keep um coming mate ,👍👍👍

Another useful idea to be sure! I’ve got a project that may benefit from that knowledge so thank you. The coffe machine will be powered by LPG gas contained in the trick locker setup you built. Speaking of coffee, I need some... ☕️

Trev = top good man. cheers for a nother video

Coffee machine will be LPG. Love the work, panel making is a very skilled job.

Hi Trev, you should look at making and selling those pliers, Great idea.

It is gonna be power by gas.Thangs for yet another good video.

Awesome video again, one day I’m going to have the knowledge and courage to start the rusty body replacement on my truck :) Your coffee machine is going to heated by LPG by Gas It

I believe you've made provisions for solar energy to supply power for your van espresso machine. Love your videos!

Lol, I used a flattened beer cap on my vw kombi as a fan spacer (the fan had started rubbing the generator) got me the 300km home for the campsite. your not the only one to study beer caps .

Another great vid Trev.

Very helpful tips & tricks as all ways trev thanks. Coffee machine will be run using LPG convertion

Great vid Trev, love the metal working tips. Thanks again

Trev, loving the shirt's!! Answer is obviously Liquid petroleum gas (LPG) for powering the Coffee Machine - Great Idea to power it! :)

Cheers from Canada. Your espresso machine is powered by LPG. Really cool setup

Aloha! Thanks for another great vid! Looks warm in old Blighty!

Love your lessons. Thank you for taking your time to make these videos and still give your only hammers away. Not sure how your going to make a living without your hammers. Anyway out of all the ways you could power your portable caffeine extraction machine. Power inverter Steam power Solar power Coal I still think a nuclear powered reactor would be the best choice. But, more likely your a Petro guy. Keep on rearranging iron alloy atoms.

Your videos sure help. I have experience with metal work but not making my own panel. I have a 62 Chevy c10 and I see I have to replace the firewall.

Trev...Again I enjoyed your vidio and it beats cutting and welding to shape the material...Thanks alot

Very interesting. I have a set of pruning shears,can try my hand at making this tool too. I made a tool just for fun, an old seperated ball joint.cut the socket, so ball has some room, a u shape flat sheet metal to keep them aligned. It makes a very nice dimple. Will stretch metal with very little effort. I made a shrinking fork and experimented. Well worth the effort to learn how to move metal. Appreciate your videos.

Brill, as usual, Trev!

Hey Trev, another great lesson on the art of metal shaping. If I remember correctly you are using LPG to run the coffee machine. As I remember an extensive video on you making the box in which the LPG cylinder is stored in. Cheers.

Great video once again Trev. The coffee machine will be LPG Gastastic !

LPG! Love these tutorials Trev...keep up the great work!

Propane powered coffee machine sounds awesome. :-)